Switch-box support



May 4 1926.

- 1,583,474 E. H. KRUSE SWITCH BOX SUPPORT Filed Oct. 12, 1923 Y. v 9 4 3 a o g O 2 5-0? J BY -ATTORNEY Patented May 4, 1926. p j

UNITED STATES'PTENT OFFICE.-

EDWARLD H, KRUSE, OF FORT 'W'AYNE, INDIANA.

SWITCH-BOX SUPPORT.

Application filed October 12 1923. Serial No. 668,095..

To all whom it may concern. j The mounts also have in each of their Be it known that I, EDWARD H. KnUsn, flanges a series of holes through which a citizen of the United States of America, nails 6 are driven to secure the mountsto and resident of Fort Wayne, in the county the studding 7 of the wall. r 5 of Allen and State of Indiana, have in- In utilizing the invention a pair of mounts 45 vented certain new and useful Improve are secured to the studding of the wall in ments in Switcl1-Box Supports, of which spaced relation with each other with their :the following is a specification. respective flanges 2 lying flat against the This invention relates to improvements studding and with'their respective flanges in switch box supports and the object there- 3 disposed at the remote edges of the cor- 50 of is to aflord means applicable in the wall responding mounts. A switch box 8 having of a building for sustaining switch boxes ears 9, of usual construction is positioned and the like therein, and which may be between the mounts with its ears 9 extendapplied with the exercise of no more than ing respectively through the corresponding ordinary skill. openings 4 of said mounts and is thereby 55 This object is accomplished by the con held fixedly in position supported by said struction illustrated in theaccompanying mounts. The apertures 4 in said mounts drawings, in which V are spaced so as to accommodate a series Flg. 1 1s a front elevation of a construcof switch boxes arranged in a gang when tion embodying the invention; so desired. 60

Fig. 2 is an elevation in a plane at right A feature of the invention is that by V angles to that of Fig. 1, the supporting bars making the apertures in the angle at the being shown in section; and juncture of the two flanges of the mounts,

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary perspective view and extensive equally into both flanges, the 2 bars. through either flange of the mountwhich The characters appearing in the descripadmits of the mounts being placed with tion refer to parts shown in the drawings either of their flanges against the studding and designated thereon by corresponding as may be most convenient. characters. Nhat I claim is 70 The invention comprises a pair of mounts In an appliance of the class described, 1, each of which consists of a metallic bar a metallic angle bar having a single series in the form of an even angle in cross secof elongated spaced slots and a series of tion, and which has along the juncture of nail holes in each of its flanges, each of its two flanges 2 and 3 a series of elongated said slots extending through the bar at the 75 apertures 4: that are extensive into both of juncture of its flanges and portions of each said flanges equally so that each aperture, as of said flanges adjacent thereto. it extends into both flanges, affords an open- In testimony, whereof I aiiix my signaing through each flange out of the plane of ture.

the other flange. v EDWARD H. xnosn.

showing the construction of the mounting ears of the switch box may be recelved 

